🛠️ Invention or technique

ADALINE

Adaline

Date
1960 · confidence high
Place
Stanford, California, United States
Credited to
Marcian Hoff y Bernard Widrow
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

ADALINE is one of the earliest single-layer artificial neural networks, based on the perceptron, whose weights were physically implemented with rheostats; it was widely used in adaptive signal processing, such as adaptive noise filtering.

What it led to

  • adaptive signal processing
  • adaptive noise filtering in telecommunications
  • development of the LMS (Widrow-Hoff) learning algorithm
  • evolution toward multilayer neural networks

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